Privacy Policy

1.1 We will only use your personal information for the purpose for which you have provided it, unless you consent otherwise, or
we are required by law to disclose it. We do not sell, rent, or lease our visitor or customer information to third parties.
Your personal information will only be disclosed to those employees who have a need to know and who are subject to duties of confidentiality.

1.2 These are the ways in which we may collect your information:

(a) We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Website. Your IP address is not use
to identify you. However, comments to articles or posts to our Website have an associated IP address recorded. This IP address is
never shown to other users and it is only collected to help us to prevent unsolicited posting to our forums (spam).

(b) by you submitting your e-mail address when subscribing to our Website or newsletter

(c) by you submitting a report via our Contact Form, that includes your personal information

(d) when you post comments on our posts or stories, and you include personal information
(Twitter username, Instagram username, Facebook account name)

(e) by participating in any surveys or requests for feedback, where an email address is requested, from a prompted form

(f) In addition to basic contact information, our analytics trackers may also collect information that is in no way personally identifiable.
This may include the operating system you are working on, the Internet browser you are using, and the screen resolution of your computer.

2.1 We may use your information in several ways.

(a) The email address you provided through our newsletter subscription form enables us to send you news updates. This subscription is entirely opt-in by the user. We cannot subscribe you to the newsletter, as you must personally have access to the email account to verify the subscription. Subscribers can opt-out of our newsletter at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link that is present on every email at the very bottom of the newsletter.

(b) The email address that you use when contacting us via our contact page will not be used for any reason but for the purposes of responding to your enquiry.

(c) If you choose to comment on D’Connect’s stories or articles through social media platforms, we do not get access to your email address nor do we have any access to your personal data or private information.

(d) We may at times request your participation in a survey. We will not provide your email addresses to any third party but may contact you via them to distribute prizes in associated giveaway promotions.

2.2 To maintain a Website that is free of charge, we display advertisements on our Website. We also use information you give us through surveys to help our advertisers target the audience they want to reach and to provide you with potentially interesting advertisements. At no time does any party other than D’Connect have access to your personally identifiable information (except for our third-party providers), and you will never be contacted by any party other than D’Connect. The only exceptions to this are that we may disclose personally identifiable information:

(a) in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or subpoena

(b) in response to a law enforcement agency’s request

(c) where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take actions regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of another person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law

(d) in the event we are acquired by or merged with another company.

2.3 When you sign up for our updates or receive e-mail messages from D’Connect, you will always be given the chance to opt-out of our communications. You may change your preferences at any time and will only be contacted in manners consistent with your stated preferences. We will always comply with the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 (NZ).

2.4 Non-personally identifiable information (such as stated above) may be shared in aggregate form with our advertisers or marketing partners but your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed to them.

2.5 We are also bound by the New Zealand legislation to make sure your personal information is not disclosed to third parties.

2.6 You have rights of access to any personal information held about you. If you wish to update your personal information, please email: hello@dconnect.co.nz

3.1 You must not post content on our Website with is offensive, defamatory or which breaches any law.

3.2 We never censor comments based on political or ideological point of view or of a critical nature. We reserve the right to delete comments that are off-topic, breach the law, those that are “spammy” in nature, abusive, use foul language, are solely for promoting an external parties’ website, including comments which are ad hominem attacks or are defamatory in nature.

3.3 When you post a comment on our Website you grant us an irrevocable license to publish that comment on our Website and use that comment for such purposes as we deem fit consistent with our business.

3.4 Once a comment is made public on our Website, we will not remove it by request. As a user, you are responsible for your own communications and are responsible for the consequences of your posting. You agree to indemnify us in respect of all loss or damage which we suffer (including, but not limited to, damages, fines, or actual legal expense) as a result of claims by third parties or any prosecution by a third party arising from comments or posts made by you to our Website.

3.5 Comments will only be considered for removal:

(a) in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order

(b) in response to a law enforcement agency’s request

(c) where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take actions regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud,
situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of another

3.6 Our Website provides a forum where users can share information and opinions on various subject matters relevant to our business. Therefore comments, opinions, postings or information displayed on tour Website are not necessarily ours and we accept no liability whatsoever for any loss or damage which you suffer, including consequential loss, loss of profit, direct or indirect loss, arising from anything posted on our Website by one of our users. The information provided on our Website is for general guidance only and does not constitute advice of any kind.

4.1 Some of our advertisers use third party companies to serve advertisements when you visit the Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites, including information gathered by cookies, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services as close to your perceived interests as possible. We do not control the practices of these companies and they may not follow the same privacy policies as us.

5.1 We may, at our discretion, update or revise this policy from time to time. Any changes will take effect immediately once they are posted on our site. Your continued use of our services after any changes have been posted on our site signifies your acceptance
of those changes.

6.1 D’Connect Limited is a Registered Business in New Zealand and is the owner of the D’Connect trademark used on our Website. You may not use this trademark without our express permission.

6.2 We are also the owner or licensee of the copyright in our Website, its contents and images, and no part of our Website may be reproduced without our express permission or that of the copyright holder.

6.3 The moral right of any articles posted on our Website remains with the author of that article and the author may also retain the copyright in that article.

6.4 If you want to republish a major part of any D’Connect content – please contact the editor at hello@dconnect.co.nz and get a written release first. Permission is unlikely to be refused and if the republication is for non-commercial purposes, no charge will be involved. If the republication is for commercial use, we’ll advise you of any charges which must be paid before republication is permitted. An article republished with our permission must credit the author and D’Connect.

6.5 In accordance with existing copyright laws, excerpts (fair use) from D’Connect’s own news stories and commentaries may be quoted providing full and proper attribution is given including the D’Connect URL which is https://dconnect.co.nz

6.6 Please don’t place our Website pages in a frame on your own pages. It is considered bad etiquette and breach of copyright to attempt to surround anyone else’s web pages with your own advertising or content. You should not attempt to “pass-off” any of our editorial content as your own work. Seasoned website users are aware that by using frames, pages from several different sites can be displayed simultaneously on the one screen – but some users often don’t and this means they are likely make the mistake of believing that “our content” is “your content”.

6.7 Permission is granted for the headline and first sentence of any D’Connect story to be republished as part of the link text used on other sites. It is requested that you place the word ‘D’Connect’ in bold text after the link so that the source of the story is obvious.